While True Detective was as much of a standard police procedural as any of the other cop drams on TV, what differentiated it was all that “Time is a flat circle” talk that everyone quotes. It walked the line between being grounded in a gritty reality and indulging in the supernatural that really set the show apart. Pizzolatto said that this season would be about “the secret occult history of the American transportation system” so we’re well on our way. The show also never offered any easy answers when it came to its more outré plot points and that’s what made it so much fun to debate and theorize about. Let’s hope that we get just the right amount of clarity for it to make sense, but not so much that it turns into the 19th season of Supernatural.
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There was much noise made about True Detective’s lack of female characters and its treatment of the ones it had. Season two has long rumored to have a major female character (possibly played by the amazing Elizabeth Moss), so lets hope that she’s a fellow detective or someone with a little bit more empowerment than the nags and vicitms of season one. And since we’re talking about hiring women, maybe get one as that visionary director. Jane Campion had tremendous success with the Sundance show Top of the Lake, which was very similar to True Detective. Maybe we need someone like her to give this thing a more feminine spin.
